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With this image, I was trying to unite all of the possible opposites conveyed in the polyvalent image of the feminine. The central image to me is the most intriguing.......I wanted to make a visual allusion to the giving of life to Adam (sistine chapel)...but here we have the young virgin (or harlot!)....perhaps temple priestess....submitting to her male consort....(her God?). So much of this lies entirely in the mind of the beholder. To some this entire image is the height of blasphemy......to me it is a heiroglyph of the deepest of mysteries.
There is a passage in the Nag Hammadi which describes the Gnostic Sophia ...using her voice. Here is a brief excerpt:
"For I am the first and the last. About the two icons in the corners......the one on the right is from the Middle east...a fertility goddess. The one on the left is from ancient Celtic Britain......an early mother goddess (pulling open her own vagina).......none of that is ever to be seen in Christian iconography. |
